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Quotes About Disguise

What a surprise attack. To imagine that you perceived that my mask was a mask and nevertheless went on pretending to be deceived.
~ K?b? Abe
I must be continually alert to the mask, as one is to handling complicated machinery.
~ K?b? Abe
when I returned to my room, took off the mask, washed away the adhesive material, and again looked at my real face, the merciless scar webs seemed less real. The mask had already become just as real as the webs, and if the mask was a temporary form, so were the webs. Apparently the mask was safely beginning to take root on my face.
~ K?b? Abe
Sie dachte noch an Unkes Maske, als sie einschlief, und im Halbschlaf fragte sie sich, ob nicht jedermann bisweilen eine Maske trug. Eine Maske der Freude, eine Maske der Trauer, eine Maske der Gleichgültigkeit. Eine Maske aus Ihr-seht-mich-nicht.
~ Kai Meyer
How am I to get back to my room dressed like this? He grinned at her, his teeth flashing whitely in the dim light from the fire. You'll leave a trail of water. Which the servants will report to your sister.
~ Karen Hawkins
of age. No distinguishing tattoos or birthmarks." He looked up, making sure he was being followed. "Five-ten
~ Karin Slaughter
Perseus wore a magic cap down over his eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.
~ Karl Marx
Liktenis parasti st?v tepat, aiz m?jas st?ra. Izlikdamies par kabatzagli, ieleni vai loterijas bi?ešu p?rdev?ju: t?s ir vi?a tr?s visbiež?k lietot?s inkarn?cijas. Bet vienu gan tas nedara - nedodas m?jas viz?t?s. Ir pašam j?dodas pie vi?a.
~ Karlos Ruis Safon
When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.
~ Thomas de Quincey
Why do you wear a mask and hood?" I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.
~ William Goldman
Every true man's apparel fits your thief.
~ William Shakespeare
Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
~ John Eldredge
Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.
~ William Butler Yeats
A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Are all men in disguise except those crying?
~ Dannie Abse
I couldn't think of anything worse than going to a fancy dress party. So, if somebody invited me to one, I'd go as the Invisible Man and not turn up.
~ David Morrissey
One great thing about being a black man is that if you put on a hat, you can move around unnoticed.
~ Deval Patrick
The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.
~ George Herbert
Everywhere man is in disguise! Who is who is unknown! Try to enter the mask and find out who the man inside really is!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I'm too ambitious to give another man credit, even if that other man is only myself in disguise.
~ Norman Lock
I've felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger. I could hide from view, like a bat on the underside of a branch.
~ P. L. Travers
Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise Of mortal men conceal'd their deities; One laid aside his thunder, one his rod
~ Ovid
When the gods come among men, they are not known.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson